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On March 22, 2015 I attended the Virtual Reality Los Angeles Spring Expo along with about 1500 other people. These are my thoughts and observations on the current state of VR.
Only one year ago a Virtual Reality meetup group was started by a 19 year old USC student (Cosmo Scharf). Cosmo now ha...

I would like to thank all involved for staging an informative and fun RealSense DevLab.
Living in Los Angeles I never get anywhere before 10AM but at 8:30AM on November 5th I was at the first Intel RealSense DevLab in Los Angeles. I was a little wary of showing up, as I am not a hard core hacker...

This is the second blog I have written in which TouchDesigner is mentioned, but this time I have an informative interview with Jarrett Smith, system architect of TouchDesigner and Ben Voigt, product manager of TouchDesigner included. TouchDesigner is a very exciting and unique program. I have a ...

I just recently created a Tshirt that says, “Too Much Software, To Little Time”.
It seems like I am constantly learning new software. I'll learn it all, then I'll die. I have one comment to software producers, I don't care what you do with the engine, just make the interface the same. Imagine a ...

For many years I have been buying my personal computers from the large companies. While I have always been happy with the computers I bought I thought that this time around I would try something different. I had a job to do that was going to demand a lot of computing power. So I decided I wo...

Only recently has the west coast of the United States, particularly California, especially southern California received the credit it deserves for the long history of abstract and experimental film work that has gone on here. The Iota Center is a non profit organization that among other thing...

So much is going on in the way of real time interactive software and animations that I find just trying to get a good understanding of all the possibilities inherent in the many programs on the market is daunting. As a freelance 3d artist/visual poet working with different companies, understandin...

Wallace Stevens is one of my favorite poets, so I was happy to find that Paul Young curator and owner of the Young Projects Gallery in the Pacific Design Center referenced one of his poems, “The Pediment of Appearance” for one of the 2 shows running concurrently in his gallery, “The Savage Transp...

I have been using a program called Xfrog for more reasons than it has a great name. Many years ago I was told about it by several people, and one of them was Saty Raghavachary, a programmer and educator at DreamWorks Animation. I only regret it has taken me so many years to start using the progra...

Sometimes I feel like I am living in the the strangest, ”most interesting” time of my life. It is certainly a challenging time!So it was a real treat to attend an inspiring event, one full of attendees and speakers that were intent on using the arts to promote and do good things. I attended one p...